On the Internet, the site Theblackvault.com has published 12,618 reports of the US Air Force, combined into a project called "Blue Book". The portal contains reports of UFO sightings from 1947 to 1969, according to an article by the Italian edition of La Stampa.
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We are talking about UFO sightings at the very time when the Americans mastered the technology of flying into space, and then in 1969 made a landing on the moon. According to the US Air Force, most of the observations have nothing to do with alien civilizations and are explained by natural phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere. But 701 of them, or 5.5 percent of all in the archive, have not received a convincing scientific explanation.
Among the unexplained phenomena is the story of Kenneth Arnold. It is this man who is believed to have come up with the name "flying saucer". On June 24, 1947, a man observed a group of nine UFOs flying at high speed near the plane on board which he was on. By a happy coincidence, his story was replicated by newspaper people and he became famous.
It is worth noting that in the 50-60s of the XX century, at the height of the Cold War, Hollywood made films in which aliens were often creatures unfriendly to people, and they moved on disk-shaped devices. These UFOs were a metaphor for the USSR threatening America. Thanks to the dream factory, a collective psychosis was born: people who watched the films saw alien spaceships everywhere, the author of the article writes.
But experts on the topic of aliens say that the files are missing information about the Roswell incident, recorded in July 1947 in New Mexico. It was with him that the UFO craze began.
On that day, July 8, 1947, officials at the American Roswell Air Base reported the discovery of the wreckage of a flying saucer. But after just a few hours, 8th Air Force commander Brigadier General Roger Ramy spoke on the radio with a rebuttal:
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“The wreck is currently in my office, and as far as I can tell, there is nothing special here. The gizmo, a star-shaped aluminum foil screen that reflects radar signals, can only fly depending on the wind speed."
Then the military organized a press conference at which they continued to defend the version according to which the wreckage of a meteorological probe was found in Roswell.
Today, Roswell has a thriving tourism business that sprang up from the city's fame as the crash site of a flying saucer. And the International UFO Museum holds the UFO Festival here every year.
